Every year Queen of Angels Catholic Church at Riverside, California has many spiritual activities during the Holy week. One of such is acting out of the passion of Jesus. There are two important days during the Holy Week when the Gospel reading is dramatized. The first is on Palm Sunday and the second is on […]
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Wordnet Productions Visiting Parishes
USW media Center Wordnet Productions has been working hard to set up a 24/7 streaming channel. The channel (WordNet TV – www.wordnettv.net) has been going on successfully for the last one year. There are a lot of new programming as well as programs by other well known producers featuring on the channel. Mission Minute is […]
Bible Ministry at LA Congress
There was a great presence of the Divine Word Missionaries at the recent Religious Education Congress, Los Angeles. Ministerio Biblicao Verbo Divino (MBVD) the Bible apostolate program of our province had its booth at the LA congress along with the Editorial from Spain. They distributed a large number of Bibles and bible related books during […]
Local Superiors and Dimension Coordinators meeting
On March 14th the local superiors, dimension coordinators and the provincial council members gathered at Riverside residence to discuss on the 2018 General Chapter document. Everyone except three was present for the meeting. Soney presented a power point on the Chapter document to help the members with the discussion and planning. Later the participants were […]
Akhil Thomas Appointed to USW
Frt. Akhil Thomas from INM has been appointed to USW by the Generalate. Akhil is completing his diaconate and theology program in Pune, India. He will be ordained sometime this year. After his ordination we would begin the process of getting visa to come to the province. We welcome Akhil to USW.
Christmas and Founders Day Celebrated
On January 15th majority of the province members gathered at Divine Word Residence to celebrate Founders Day and Province Christmas celebration. The celebrations began with the Eucharistic celebration presided by the Provincial Soney Sebastian. During his homily he spoke about the importance of family by giving reference to the influence of family and family traditions, […]
Tri-Province Council Meeting
The members of the three US provincial Councils gathered at Riverside from January 21st to 25th for a workshop and meeting. The first day was used as a workshop by Peter Dikos our Procurator General from Generalate. to train and teach us to deal with “Nulli Stationi Ad Scripti” status and how to cancel them. […]
The 7th Vietnamese SVD Gathering
Christmas 2018 was a special occasion for the Vietnamese SVDs in the United States. It gave them the opportunity to reflect, to pause and to share on the important things in the life of mission. 34 Vietnamese SVDs gathered at Divine Word residence, Riverside from December 26-29, 2018 for the 7thVietnamese SVD Gathering. Familiar SVD […]
The prayer and fundraising for Earthquake Victims in Indonesia
On 7th October2018 Fr. Yori Sodanago SVD was invited by the Indonesian Consulate in Los Angeles to participate in an Inter-Faith Religious prayer service for the earth quake victims in Palu, Donggala, Petobo, Sigi and Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. There were two Buddhist and Hudustan Imams, one Protestant priest, two Muslim Hajjis besides Yori himself. The […]
What we are doing to protect God’s Children
In all the dioceses that we are working we collaborate with the policies of the dioceses. As a member of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men (CMSM) we follow its polices and standards. CMSM is working with USCCB in following the Dallas Charter. We are registered with Praesidium and undergo accreditation every 5 years. […]